Who named America? Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci inspired the name via a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller. Learn who was ...

Currently, the three largest countries in Africa by land area are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and ...

India's "great" artistic and architectural heritage is being showcased at a major Louvre-curated exhibition in Shanghai, highlighting centuries of shared cultural traditions across India, Iran and the ...

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) generally gets credit for finding America. In grade school, many of us learned this ditty: ...

On many world maps, Greenland and Africa can look almost the same size. But the reality is very different. Africa covers an ...

After a wildfire, rain washes away soil for years. A new study reveals massive losses and hidden risks in a global map.

Ethiopian Airlines laid the cornerstone for Bishoftu International Airport, a major project with 110M passenger capacity, ...

New limits reflect sloppy reasoning and a desire for collective punishment.

W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

ISIS may have lost its caliphate, but it isn’t dead. From Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan and Africa, the terror group is ...

Africa rsquo;s railway map tells a powerful but uncomfortable story . Most of the continent rsquo;s rail lines run from the ...